John 2:19
And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 27:40You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Mark 8:31And teaching them, he said that the Son of man would have to undergo much, and be hated by those in authority, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days come back from the dead.
Mark 15:29And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,
John 10:17For this reason am I loved by the Father, because I give up my life so that I may take it again.
Acts 2:24But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.
Matthew Henry on John 2:13-23
Temple-Merchandise Punished; Christ's Death and Resurrection Foretold. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. 13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the… Read the whole commentary →